Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Dawson is facing Dangerous light heavyweight knockout artist Epifanio Mendoza (28-4-1, 24 KOs), from Barranquilla, Colombia, who seems to be dangerous too,even more KOS' than Diaconu!
Thanks for the news and kudos to them for pulling this off with such short notice. It does however seem like a bit of a stretch to call Mendoza a light heavyweight knockout artist, when he has only 2 fights at the weight. One of which went the distance btw. He only stepped up from 160 less than a year ago. Also a quick look on boxrec shows that his first 15 ko's were in Colombia and against fighters not only with losing records, but of which 13 had never won a fight.

He is world ranked at 168 as well, which is where I have mostly heard his name metioned, but I guess he needed to jump at this chance when it materialized.

Still predict an easy night out for Dawson, but, well, it's better than not fighting at all, and given the circumstances everybody should be applauded for taking it on.